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  • Everything we know about the 'iPhone 14 Pro' so far

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    Fred257 said:
    I’ve switched from iPhone 12 mini to Google pixel and I couldn’t be happier. Battery life is amazing. Voice dictation is perfect and faster then ever. Tasks are incredibly fast. Always on display is amazing. Weather in Lock Screen is perfect and I strongly needed it. Touch ID during the pandemic is a complete necessity for me and much faster then Face ID. I’m afraid that I’m now a convert to android. I’ve been an apple phone fan since the 3g. Apple is using an old compartmentalized notion that you need each separate thing for a complete Apple experience. It’s an old outdated model that needs to be reconstructed. I’m not going to buy an Apple Watch to unlock my iPhone with a mask. I’m not going to have my iPad side by side with my computer. Apple is falling behind with everything accept the Mac and Apokecwatch. The iPhone and iPad are total crap these days. I updated from first version of SE to the 12 mini. What a depressing upgrade. Goodbye Apple iPhone. Your years ahead thinking and sollidifying of your products a year or two out needs to be redone. Apples compartmentalization is destroying Apples products strength. The new MacBook pros are fantastic and I have one. Cheers
    It’s fine if you prefer your Pixel, but taking your preference to the level that Apple’s approach is ‘destroying’ Apple is silly.

    I’m also not following your argument. You don’t need an Apple Watch to use an iPhone, nor an iPad to use a MacBook, etc. They aren’t incomplete devices in need of each other. You could say there isn’t much overlap between things like the iPad and MacBook, but many people see that ‘compartmentalisation’ as a good thing.

    Not sure how having the weather on the Lock Screen is something anyone strongly needs—does that extra few seconds to unlock your device really make or break you? Or even just (gasp) stepping outside? Seems like a trite ‘need’.

    As far as mask wearing, you could always move somewhere that doesn’t subscribe to the false idea that cloth masks are statistically anything more than virtue signalling and a security blanket…? :) Seriously though, during the time my area required masks adapting to FaceID was a non-issue. Pulling the mask down for 2 seconds to unlock your phone is surely safer than removing it entirely to eat…
    williamlondon

  • 'Apple Together' group organizing corporate, retail walkout on Dec. 24

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    The words ‘We deserve…’ are the ramblings of entitled, spoiled, and ungrateful people. Even if it’s true that they ‘deserve’ this or that, anyone who stands up and proclaims to the world what they ‘deserve’ doesn’t deserve anything. They’re simply spoiled and have no idea that they are.
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  • The least surprising news of 2021: Facebook voted the worst company in America

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    seanj said:
    Biggest issue with Facebook is that it is slow to react against people spreading anti-vaccine disinformation. This literally causes deaths due to people actually believing this nonsense.

    It shouldn’t be difficult to preemptively spot these either. A significant proportion of anti-vaxx lies is generated by the Internet Research Agency in St Petersburg, Russia, working for Putin.
    Why is Facebook’s responsibility to ‘stop’ vaccine misinformation by moderating the discourse of mass quantities of people?

    Are you going to vote next to disallow vaccine misinformation from being texted? And then to disallow it from being spoken about in person in federal buildings? Etc. Etc.

    People like you don’t really understand what you’re saying. Our founders knew that we can’t always tell who is doing good, even ourselves. That’s the entire reason for separation of powers and free speech, and it is absolutely worth dying for. Don’t be short sighted, or else you will be serving the next ‘benevolent’ dictator willingly so that you can feel safe from the scary world. 

    Power must be diluted. Not given into the hands of a few ‘trustworthy’ people who more than likely are just good at lying. 
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  • Apple debuts new Open Source website, will release projects on GitHub

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    I very much like some elements of open source and I’ve used various open source projects and applications over the last 20+ years, but I’ve always seen the purist form of the ‘movement’ as silly.

    Besides projects here and there, an open source world is even less practical and realistic than the message of communism—sounds great in theory, but in real life it will eventually ruin everything.

    So I’m never gagging to praise anyone for open source efforts simply because they’re open source. If those open source efforts directly lead to definable and practical betterment then I’ll praise those aspects, but I’d praise those aspects regardless of whether they came from open source or not.
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  • Apple made secret 5-year $275B deal with Chinese government

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    Or Apple could have looked at the bigger picture rather than their own growth. Helping the Chinese Communist Party is not in the world’s interest.

    It always amazes me how complacent people in the US have become. We’ve had such tremendous success that we believe it’ll just keep being this good, and that we’ll always know who the bad people are because they have orange skin. That we can ignore the founders’ vision and ideals because we know so much better than they did even though we’ve had relatively zero hardships (in terms of tyrants and oppressive governments).

    At least more people are waking up to the reality of the threat from China (not the Chinese people necessarily, but the CCP).
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